Social Sciences Databases Comparison Chart (print version)
| Database | Description | Subjects | Coverage | Types of Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Search Premier | Academic and popular multi-disciplinary database, Provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals and magazines. | Broad coverage of nearly every area of academic research. Includes popular magazines like Newsweek. | 1975-present | Journal articles |
| CINAHL | Nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. | Communication and psychiatric disorders. Includes excellent consumer health education studies, research, and information guides. | 1982-present | Journal articles |
| Education Abstracts FT | Indexes articles from over 500 English-language periodicals, yearbooks, series and supplements. | Preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, special and adult education. Social- and school-related material about disabled children and educational psychology. | 1929-present | Journal articles |
| ERIC | Premier database for education literature. . | Preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, special and adult education. Social- and school-related material about disabled children | 1966-present | Journal articles, ERIC documents |
| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts | Contains abstracts and citations to over 2,000 journals, book chapters, and dissertations related to the topics of language and linguistics. | Linguistics, sociolinguistics, language learning, literacy and learning disabilities. | 1973-present | Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations |
| Modern Language Association (MLA) | Contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. | Linguistic analysis on modern languages. | 1920’s-present | Journal articles, books and dissertations |
| PubMed | Contains international coverage of over 3,800 journals in the field of medicine. Biomedical journals: | Psychophysiology, psychopharmacolocy, psychiatry, neuroscience, language and the brain, hospital management, societal issues and medicine, communication disorders, etc. | 1966-present | Journal articles |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook | Indexes over 2,000 standardized tests complete with references and test reviews. The database does not include the text of any test. | For locating basic test information, purpose, validity, and reviews. Publishers, price (at time of publication), and address) | 1989-present | Psychological and educational tests, measures, inventories |
| PsycInfo | Contains citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports in the field of psychology. | Psychology: language processing, psychotherapy, cognitive science, language disabilities, socialization and children, social issues and mental illness. | 1887-present | Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations |
| Social Science Citation Index – Web of Science | Large multidisciplinary academic database that covers over 20,000 journals. | For identifying related articles, especially published outside of social science, not indexed in social science databases. | 1949-present | Journal articles |
| Sociological Abstracts | Indexes the international literature in sociology and the social and behavioral sciences. | Sociology: Family and social welfare, social psychology, group interaction, and women’s studies | 1963-present | Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations |
